Nearly 100 people have been killed in homicides in Lee County since 2011. During that time, the Lee County Sheriff's Office solved more than half of the murders thanks to a team of investigators in their Major Crimes Unit.

Detectives in the Lee County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit respond to calls all around the county involving death or serious, violent crime every day. Each detective is tasked with then solving the crimes.

In any given month, a detective may have 12 cases to monitor constantly. Some cases are in the early stages of collecting evidence and requesting search warrants, while other cases are in need of new information, interviews or details.

The men and women tasked with solving major violent crimes are required to give each case the same focus and drive to solve it. It can take weeks, months or years to get all the evidence together to file charges against a suspect. While the process can be a difficult one, detectives tell us putting killers behind bars remains the priority.

"We're all volunteers for this unit. We volunteer for our own reasons, but we volunteer because we want to speak for the person that was killed," said Detective Rob Patton with the LCSO Major Crimes Unit.

"There's no ego in this job. We're here together as a team to get it across the finish line," said Sergeant Matt McDaniel with the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

Every unattended death gets a detective on scene to investigate all possible causes before anything can be confirmed. Those same detectives are tasked with opening and closing a natural cause death. Those cases can take as many as six hours to investigate.